How To Install qsynth on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qsynth on CentOS 8.
What is qsynth
QSynth is a fluidsynth GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt4 toolkit using Qt Designer. Eventually it may evolve into a softsynth management application allowing the user to control and manage a variety of command line softsynth but for the moment it wraps the excellent FluidSynth. FluidSynth is a command line software synthesizer based on the Soundfont specification.
We can use yum or dnf to install qsynth on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qsynth.
Install qsynth on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install qsynth using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install qsynth
Install qsynth on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install qsynth using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install qsynth
How To Uninstall qsynth on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the qsynth package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove qsynth
qsynth Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/qsynth
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca/bc0fba95d783f85e4f271beb30dcc54bda740c
/usr/share/applications/qsynth.desktop
/usr/share/doc/qsynth
/usr/share/doc/qsynth/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/qsynth/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/qsynth/README
/usr/share/doc/qsynth/TODO
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/qsynth.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/qsynth.svg
/usr/share/licenses/qsynth
/usr/share/licenses/qsynth/COPYING
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/qsynth.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/qsynth.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/qsynth.appdata.xml
/usr/share/qsynth
/usr/share/qsynth/translations
/usr/share/qsynth/translations/qsynth_cs.qm
/usr/share/qsynth/translations/qsynth_de.qm
/usr/share/qsynth/translations/qsynth_es.qm
/usr/share/qsynth/translations/qsynth_fr.qm
/usr/share/qsynth/translations/qsynth_ru.qm
/usr/share/qsynth/translations/qsynth_sr.qm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qsynth on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.